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[00:01:03]  Welcome to today's Washington Journal.
[00:01:06]  Here are the front pages of the national newspapers.
[00:01:09]  The Wall Street Journal.
[00:01:11]  Terror attack in Australia targets Jews.
[00:01:14]  Two gunmen open fire on Hanukkah event in Sydney, killing at least 15.
[00:01:19]  Here's the New York Times.
[00:01:21]  Sydney Carnage Targets Jews.
[00:01:24]  And the Washington Post, gunmen kill 15 at Hanukkah event in Australia.
[00:01:29]  Father-son acted together.
[00:01:31]  Jewish leaders say they warned of rising anti-Semitism.
[00:01:36]  And here's the Washington Times with the headline, anti-Semitic terror strikes down under U.S. Cities Ramp Up Security for Hanukkah celebrations after shooting kills 15.
[00:01:49]  Well, the president was at a White House Christmas event yesterday and made these comments.
[00:01:54]  I want to just pay my respects to the people.
[00:02:00]  Unfortunately, two are no longer with us.
[00:02:03]  Brown University, nine injured, and two are looking down on us right now from heaven.
[00:02:10]  And likewise in Australia, as you know, there was a terrible attack, 11 dead, 29 badly wounded.
[00:02:18]  And that was an anti-Semitic attack, obviously.
[00:02:22]  And I just want to pay my respects to everybody.
[00:02:26]  I must say in Syria also, we had an attack in Syria.
[00:02:32]  And we had three great patriots terminated by bad people.
[00:02:39]  And not the Syrian government.
[00:02:41]  It was ISIS.
[00:02:42]  Syrian government fought by our side.
[00:02:44]  The new president fought by our side.
[00:02:46]  But I just want to pay my respects to the families.
[00:02:51]  We also had three injured, but two of them are already out of the hospital.
[00:02:55]  One's going to be okay.
[00:02:58]  But we lost three, so it was a rough, it was a rough day.
[00:03:03]  But to Australia and the Prime Minister, to everybody that we know so well, we get along with so well, we have a great relationship.
[00:03:12]  That's a terrible situation going on over there.
[00:03:15]  Think of that.
[00:03:16]  And Brown University, great school, great, great, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world.
[00:03:25]  Things can happen.
[00:03:26]  So to the nine injured, get well fast.
[00:03:30]  And to the families of those two that are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and respects from the United States of America.
[00:03:41]  And this is about the Brown University.
[00:03:45]  It says on the Washington Post at Brown shots, then screams in lecture hall.
[00:03:49]  It says, a teaching assistant held wounded students' hand, quote, put all the pain on me.
[00:03:57]  Well, about that Brown University shooting, this was Senator Chris Murphy on one of the Sunday shows, CNN's State of the Union, yesterday.
[00:04:08]  Yeah, I mean, what I think about when one of these mass shootings happens is that community in Sandy Hook.
[00:04:14]  Those parents, when they see these images on television, are always having to relive the horror of that day.
[00:04:22]  And of course, it's especially tragic given that we are marking 13 years since that shooting.
[00:04:29]  What I know is that a community never ever recovers from a shooting like this.
[00:04:34]  And the trauma and the cost is not just in the lives lost.
[00:04:38]  Obviously, we are mourning most deeply for those that were killed, those that were wounded, hoping that there are no more fatalities.
[00:04:46]  But that community in Providence won't recover.